DCC wins in ABA’s Top 100 law blogs of 2013

“If there’s a dog-eared manuscript to a legal thriller gathering dust in your back drawer, wipe that sucker off and turn to cold-case consultant Alice de Sturler’s blog. A mixture of interviews with true-crime authors and profiles of real cold cases, Defrosting Cold Cases is both fascinating and heartbreaking.”

That is exactly what DCC is to me. The stories fascinate me, the contact with the victims’ families breaks my heart but … I am not going to give up. It is too important to me to get these stories online especially if a victim hardly has a web presence.

Thank you to those who nominated me and thanks to all who voted for my blog. The nomination has led to an increase in blog subscribers and visitors. I am very happy about this because it means that more people get to read about the victims’ stories.

I have received many emails from people who did not know a blog like mine existed with true crime stories as opposed to the Hollywood productions. The cases list now counts over 130 victim stories. More unsolved homicides/missing person cases will be posted in 2014 with details where available about trial dates.

Most of all, I wish to thank the true supporters of my blog who retweet, share blog posts, send messages and take part in #CrimeChat on Twitter. Special thanks to my Australian and New Zealand Twitter followers. You rock!!!

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This resource blog profiles cold cases to give the victims a bigger digital footprint. We must ensure that those developing new technologies can find these old cases to see if preserved evidence can be tested with new technology. I also blog about wrongful convictions.

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Richard Lapointe Case Update

On April 10, Superior Court Judge Joan Alexander ordered Lapointe released on $250,000 security bond. He is staying at an undisclosed location.

A decision on a retrial could take time. Assistant State's Attorney David Zagaja said in court late last month that prosecutors want to assemble all the evidence in the Martin killing and perform genetic, or DNA testing — tests that the prosecution has resisted for years. None of the DNA results analyzed to date have tied Lapointe to the crime, but neither have they tended to exonerate him by implicating someone else.

"The state's position has changed," Zagaja said in court. The state now is deciding how to proceed in the case, he said. Before, he said, the state was trying to maintain a conviction.